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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published July 1981
Frequency bi-monthly
Cover Price 1.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief); Dennis O'Neil (Editor); Ralph Macchio (Associate Editor)

Cover Details - "Secret Lives of the X-Men"

Characters X-Men [Iceman; Nightcrawler; Phoenix]
Genre superhero
Pencils Paul Gulacy
Inks Paul Gulacy
Reprinted in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

2 page credits "Stan Lee Presents Secret Lives of the X-Men"

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1 page From the Warp of Dennis O'Neil foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Listen, I Knew the X-Men When..."

Script Dennis O'Neil
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Notes Editorial.

1 page X-Men Data Log character profile "Phoenix"

Genre superhero
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Reprinted in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

18 page Phoenix story "The Brides of Attuma"

Characters Jean Grey [Marvel Girl (in flashback); Phoenix (in flashback)]; Attuma (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Chris Claremont
Pencils John Buscema
Inks Klaus Janson
Reprinted in X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page X-Men Data Log character profile "Iceman"

Genre superhero
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17 page Iceman story "Winter Carnival"

Characters Iceman [Bobby Drake]
Genre superhero
Script Mary Jo Duffy
Pencils George Perez
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Reprinted in X-Men: Rarities (Marvel, 1995 series) #[nn]

1 page X-Men Data Log character profile "Nightcrawler"

Genre superhero
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18 page Nightcrawler story "Show Me the Way to Go Home..."

Characters Nightcrawler [Kurt Wagner]; GS: X-Men [Wolverine; Cyclops; Storm; Colossus]; Vanisher (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Mary Jo Duffy (plot & script); Bob Layton (plot)
Pencils Dave Cockrum
Inks Ricardo Villamonte

Half page statement of ownership "U.S. Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation"

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2 page Letters letters page

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